The following reply was made to PR misc/34995; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Onno van der Linden <o.vd.linden@quicknet.nl>
To: Sergey Svishchev <svs+pr@grep.ru>
Cc: wiz@netbsd.org, gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/34995
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:24:44 +0100

 On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:41:34PM +0300, Sergey Svishchev wrote:
 > >It's caused by wsvt using tc=vt220-8 instead of tc=vt220.
 > >This changes the ae and as capabilities to ^O and ^N, which
 > >aren't handled in wsemul_vt100.c
 > 
 > They are, actually.  grep ASCII_SI and ASCII_SO.
 
 Oops, I did a grep once but obviously my brain left me when I failed
 to match ^N and ^O with ASCII_SI and ASCII_SO  :-)
 
 > >/usr/bin/tput as;echo "tq";/usr/bin/tput ae
 > >
 > >It should give some graphic lines in both cases, but it doesn't.
 > 
 > That's because the alternate charset is identical to primary.  My
 > working copy (in $HOME/.termcap) had ti= and te= sequences that define
 > and reset alternate charset, but I've managed to forget about that...
 > 
 > Here it is, please test.  (I've verified that mutt displays line
 > drawing characters.)
 
 It works, in slrn and mutt.
 
 You might as well skip the ae and as definitions, they're already
 in vt220-8.
 
 Thanks for the fix,
 
 Onno